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TV Food Ads Promote Bad Diets
Study found they peddle huge amounts of sugar and fat, with few fruits and vegetables If you let TV ads determine what you eat, you'll end up with huge amounts of fat and sugar but precious few vegetables and fruits in your diet. That's the finding of a new study that analyzes what would happen if a person were to eat 2,000 calories of foods that are advertised on the tube. dblclick('xxlA'); Researchers found that such a diet would include 25 times the recommended servings of sugar and 20 times the recommended servings of fat in a daily diet. But it would include less than half the recommended servings of vegetables, fruit and dairy products. "The results of this study suggest the foods advertised on television tend to oversupply nutrients associated with chronic illness -- e.. » read more
Rush Limbaugh: I know I'll be destroyed eventually
Radio giant fears not only for his life, but also his wealth, accomplishments He's the most-listened-to personality in the history of U.S. radio, but Rush Limbaugh feared for his life recently and said he knows he faces destruction at some point, to the delight of some of the American public. In an e-mail sent to Zev Chafets, author of the new book "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One," Limbaugh admitted, "I know I am a target and I know I will be destroyed eventually. I fear that all I have accomplished and all the wealth I have accumulated will be taken from me, to the cheers of the crowd.. » read more
Corporate Lobbyists and Public Relations Firms behind Cable News Outlets
March 1, Since 2007, at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have appeared on cable news broadcasts "with no disclosure of the corporate interests that paid them," The Nation magazine (March 1) reveals. Many of these people are "paid by companies and trade groups to manage their public image and promote their financial and political interests," writes the magazine's Sebastian Jones, a freelance reporter after a four-month-long probe. "Many have been regulars on more than one of the cable networks, turning in dozens---and in some cases hundreds---of appearances," Jones reports. For example, Tom Ridge, identified as the former governor of Pennsylvania, appeared on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews urging the White House to "create nuclear power plants." What viewers were not told, though, is that Ridge since 2005 has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's biggest nuclear power company, Jones writes.. » read more
FULFORD: Google is evil and we must denounce its stunning hypocrisy
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PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS: Close Down GEO TV and Everything Will be Fine
Dec. 21, 2009 3 Votes PDRTJS_settings_312520_post_11963 = { "id" : "312520", "unique_id" : "wp-post-11963", "title" : "PSYCHOLOGICAL+OPERATIONS%3A+Close+Down+GEO+TV+and+Everything+Will+be+Fine", "item_id" : "_post_11963", "permalink" : "http%3A%2F%2Fpakalert.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F21%2Fpsychological-operations-close-down-geo-tv-and-everything-will-be-fine%2F" } Honestly, if you don’t watch GEO Television aka Jew TV, everything seems so routine and normal in the country and you don’t get bouts of frustration and agony and you don’t shudder that Pakistan will be no more in coming some weeks or the country won’t be engulfed in the civil war and we will be cutting each other’s throat. When all this GEO Terrorism started during the era of Musharraf, many of us didn’t believe and listen to the saner elements who warned us about the propaganda and the lies being churned out by some anchors and the media owners.. » read more
Government's £6 million 'Bedtime Story' climate change ad: most pernicious waste of taxpayers' money ever? (UK)
Dec. 17, 2009 (Oct. 12, 2009) The government has spent £6 million on a hard-hitting commercial warning children of the perils of failing to check under their beds and in their cupboards before they go to sleep. The advert – “Watch Out – Or The Bogeyman Will Get You!” – has been rushed out by Ed Miliband’s Department of Ignorance And Fear Promotion (formerly Dept of Energy and Climate Change) in response to “worrying” statistics showing that 52 per cent of children think the Bogeyman “will never ever crawl from underneath my bed and get me, no not even if I don’t check”, with another 32 per cent saying “Well I suppose I ought to have a quick look, just in case” while another 15 per cent do not know. Just one per cent agree with the government’s statement: “Yes I believe that the Bogeyman exists and that he represents a greater threat to my future than even Al Qaeda, Gordon Brown’s mismanagement of the economy or racist language on Strictly Come Dancing.. » read more
Oprah to wrap up the daytime conversation
Friday, November 20, 2009 Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry, will announce Friday that her iconic daytime talk show will wrap at the end of its 25th season. But don't panic -- her final appearance as host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is nearly two years away. And it's possible she'll move the whole shebang to the cable network she's setting up, called, naturally, the Oprah Winfrey Network. "The sun will set on the 'Oprah' show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011," Winfrey's Harpo Productions said in an e-mail to TV station executives Thursday evening. "As we all know, Oprah's personal comments about this on tomorrow's live show will mark a historic television moment that we will all be talking about for years to come.. » read more
Digital TV Ready to Rule the Tube, Leaving Some Viewers in the Dark
Thursday, June 11, 2009 Almost 3 million U.S. homes -- 60,000 households in the Washington area alone -- could wake up Saturday to a blank TV screen. By midnight tomorrow, all of the nation's full-powered TV stations will shut off the analog signals that brought the iconic shows "I Love Lucy" and the "Cosby Show" to millions of living rooms, marking the biggest change in television viewing since the advent of Technicolor. In their place, broadcasters will air a new breed of digital broadcasts intended to bring crisper pictures and sound to shows like "American Idol.. » read more
Digital TV Transition, Set for June, May Get Early Test
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Government agencies and broadcasters are working on plans for an early test of the digital TV transition, saying the number of people still unprepared to make the switch has been cut, but that millions of Americans remain at risk of losing television reception next month. One approach under consideration, as the June 12 digital TV transition day approaches, is a nationwide flip of the switch, slated for May 21. Owners of older television sets that have not been equipped with a converter box will be able to tell for certain whether they're prepared for the age of digital programming. Details of the test, in which broadcasters would switch from analog to digital broadcasts for a few minutes, are still in the works. Three months ago, according to research firm Nielsen, 6.. » read more
THE REAL REASON BEHIND THE SWITCH FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL
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